Greek Extended

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Greek Extended
RangeU+1F00..U+1FFF
(256 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsGreek
Major alphabetspolytonic Greek
Assigned233 code points
Unused23 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.1 (1993)233 (+233)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Greek Extended is a Unicode block containing the accented vowels necessary for writing polytonic Greek. The regular, unaccented Greek characters as well as the characters with tonos and diaeresis can be found in the Greek and Coptic block. Greek Extended was encoded in version 1.1 of the Unicode Standard. As an alternative to Greek Extended, combining characters can be used to represent the tones and breath marks of polytonic Greek.

In this block, the letters with oxia (acute accent) and no other accent are not used in any of the Unicode normalizations. Decomposition of U+1F71 <reserved-1F71>, for example, yields U+03B1 α <reserved-03B1> followed by a U+0301 ◌́ <reserved-0301>, while composition yields the same letter with tonos, U+03AC ά <reserved-03AC>, from the Greek and Coptic block.

Block

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Greek Extended[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1F0x
U+1F1x
U+1F2x
U+1F3x Ἷ
U+1F4x
U+1F5x
U+1F6x
U+1F7x
U+1F8x
U+1F9x
U+1FAx
U+1FBx ᾿
U+1FCx
U+1FDx
U+1FEx
U+1FFx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Greek Extended block:

References

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